Announcement
Boston Art Book Fair Returns for its Third Year, November 8-10
Boston Center for the Arts and Bodega team up again to present the second largest Art Book Fair on the East Coast, taking place in the Historic Cyclorama at BCA.
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Art
A Requiem for the Anti-Klan Marchers Killed in 1979
A commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre will include a community reading of Emily Mann’s play Greensboro: A Requiem.
Art
Required Reading
The week, a protest performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Disney's weird policy towards classic Fox movies, words about perception, the lack of food in video games, criminalizing the b-word, and more.
Music
An Explosion of Alternative Noise
Tired of contemporary pop’s mild spareness, craving music packed tight with crunch? These are four the noisiest albums rock albums around.
Art
Gauguin’s Predatory Colonial Gaze
Is it fair to use contemporary standards to judge a man who died 116 years ago?
Art
Painting Outside the Safe Zone
It is not so much what message is narrated or illustrated, but how the form of the painting is questioned in its realization.
Art
A Two-Person Show Spans the Poles of Imagination
Tammy Nguyen’s inspired reinvention of the myth of Narcissus occupies a world apart from Ha Ninh Pham’s slightly demented vision of a parallel universe.
Art
Painting Disaster From a Distance
Motohide Takami's images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.
Art
A Richard Serra Thought Experiment
Serra’s new works are the ultimate billionaire’s art.
Art
Using Animals to Talk About Historical Trauma
By drawing on Japanese folk stories and myths about animals, Gaku Tsutaja is able to construct imaginative, open-ended narratives about historical traumas.
Books
Visceral Drawings From Antonin Artaud’s Final Years
Spanning a period of more than 20 years, the works in Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits are a devastating record of a soul lashing out and grasping at the page.
News
Lebanese Art Community Joins Unprecedented Protests
As artists discuss the role of contemporary art in times of revolution and rally on the streets, 20 leading arts organizations issued a statement of solidarity with protesters across Lebanon.